Thank you filing the issue and sharing the logs - I don't see any issues with the logs you shared. Could you try to install some of the previous releases to see if the performance is consistently better - this will help narrow down any possible regressions.

Unfortunately not, python process still at ~100% and startup takes about 3 minutes.

I've installed version 0.11.1, because this one isn't available https://pypi.org/project/iotedgehubdev/0.13.0/

pip3 install iotedgehubdev==0.13.0 ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement iotedgehubdev==0.13.0 (from versions: 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.5.0, 0.6.0, 0.7.0, 0.8.0, 0.9.0, 0.10.0, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.14.0, 0.14.1) ERROR: No matching distribution found for iotedgehubdev==0.13.0

Hey @marianan - I think I've found some important additional information for you.

I can only reproduce this behavior if a "Binds" array is provided in the deployment manifest, e.g. my create options look like as following:

{
    "Binds":[
        "<secret-host-source-path>:/mnt/host",
        "/Users/<secret-path>/modules/WebServer/src:/app/src"
    ]
}

If I remove the binds object everything works fine and fast.

The issue is in our backlog now. Will circle back when we have an update

Looks like it is getting jammed up running the regex here:

match = None

causing it to always fallback to the simple token based parsing below.

The proper fix would be to find a better regex that doesn't take 3 minutes to process for each bind.

Thank you @glneo the bug is in our backlog.

@marianan - do you've a rough estimation when this issue will be solved or when somebody starts working on it respectively?

Thanks a lot.

Hi @Suizi11, thank you for sharing your findings with us. We have done some investigation on this issue and have decided to leave the regex parsing @glneo mentioned above as is.

This is because we need to have a thorough way of parsing binds for everyone that uses our tool, even though it is the source of a longer runtime and high CPU usage. The regex pattern here (iotedgehubdev regex) was taken directly from how docker processes binds.

Thank you very much.

Thanks @mhshami01 for referring to this issue. Seeing that the issue is blocking (it just doesn't start the sim anymore) I am wondering what the current proposed workaround is?

@cindydeng1998 , Even though the regex in question here "was taken directly from how docker processes binds", does not mean it is correct. Docker and this project use different regex engines causing this issue.

As this is still blocking folks like @XavierGeerinck and our team, this issue should not be closed.

@glneo thank you for your PR. We will review promptly.

@Suizi11 a new version (0.14.13) of the iotedgehubdev simulator has been released with a fix for the createOptions path array binding. Please try it out and let us know if your original issue still persists.

0.14.13 fixed the issue for me. However, I had to install that regex dependency manually, not sure why pip didn't install it for me. Though, I forced the iotedgehubdev@0.14.13 install with iotedgedev@3.3.3.

Thanks @ljani i missed adding regex as a dependency in the setup.py in my earlier change. An update is coming early next week which will include also this fix.

@ljani the missing regex dependency is now resolved in version 0.14.14. Let us know if you run into other issues.

If you have a few mins we would love to hear your feedback on your developer experience in general at http://aka.ms/edgedevsurvey.

Closing this issue, please let us know if any of the symptoms persist.